Fish-hook.



C. L. VAN NORSDALL.

FISH Hoox.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 23; 1910- 1,055,104. Patented Mami, 1913.

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FISH-HOOK.

Specification oi' Letters Iatent.

Patented Malnfl, 1913.

Application filed July 23, 1910. Serial No. 573,492.

To alf whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CALviN Ii. VAN NonsDALL, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Weir, in the county of Cherokee, State of Kansas,lhave invented eertainnew and useful Improvements in Fish-Hooks; and Ido hereby declare the following'to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the invention, such as Will enable others skilled in theart to which it appertains to' make and use the same.

This invention relates to fish hooks.

The object ofthe invention is to provide a fish hook adapted to beeasily disconnected from a line without injury to either hook or lineand also adapted to be quickly and easilvwithdrawn in the direction ofits barbed point from a fish caught thereon, thereby avoiding mutilationof the fish or the subjection of' same to unduetorture.

A further object of the invention is to provide a fish hook comprisingdetachably connected shank and hook members, the lat,

ter of which has a pointed upper end whereby live bait may be placed onthe hook at said, end without injury to the bait, as is likely when thesame in laced on a hook at the barbed forward end) thereof.

With the above and other objects in view the invention consists in thedetails of construction and combination and arrangement of parts as willbe hereinafter more fully described and particularly pointed out in theappended claim.

In describing the invention in detail reference will be had to theaccompanying drawings wherein like characters of reference denotecorresponding parts in the several views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a fish hook constructed i1. accordancewith the invention; and, Fig. 2, a vertical longitudinal section of samewith the hook member shown in elevation.

Referring to the drawings, 1() indicates In assembling the members ofthe hook the pointed end 15 of the hook member is'in- -sertcd inthelower end of the' shank member 10 until the shoulder 11 is moved bevyondthe finger 12 when the latter will Spring inwardly as a result of itsresiliency and engage the shoulder 17 and vthus pre-V vent thewithdrawal of the hook member from the shank member. Further inwardmovement of the hook member is prevented by the engagement of thepointed end 15 with the core 13. In order to separate the members of thehook` it is only necessary to rotate the hook member until the shoulder17 is moved out of engagement with the finger 12 when said members maybe easilydrawn apart.

What is claimed is:

A fish hook comprising a cylindrical tubular -shank member providedwithY line attaching means, an inwardly projecting stem rotatablymounted in said shank member, a hookmember having acylindrical stemrotatably mounted in sai dshank' member, said stem being ,provided witha cutaway portion t'orming a shoulder and a fiat face engaged by thefree end of the spring tongue whereby the hook member is yieldingly heldagainst Arotation and secured against longitudinal movement in the tbular member, said stem being adapted u on rotation to force the freeend of the tongue outwardly of the shank member and move the shoulderand flat face out of engagement with the tongue whereby the hook memberis rendered free toV be withdrawnv from the shank member by alongitudinal movement of the hook member relatively to the shank member.

In testimony whereof, I affix my signature, in presence of twowitnesses.

CALVIN L. VAN NORSDALL.

Witnesses j l' B. W. Crown, R. C. GlY.

